Social media users in India erupted with nationalistic rage after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defied a rare government summons to attend a Parliamentary hearing on safeguarding citizen rights on such platforms, even as some legal experts termed the entire brouhaha as a “political stunt.” The panel had summoned representatives of Twitter and the Ministry of […]
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View: Grey areas in the ‘new’ FDI policy changes in ecommerce need clarification
By Pralok Gupta Ecommerce companies in India are having a troubled time, as the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy changes announced in December 2018 took effect from February 1. Though GoI considers these changes as a mere reiteration of earlier policy, the market reaction and analysis of these changes reveal that the new obligations on […]
Dell EMC: Open Networking’s Next Evolution Is SD-WAN
News Dell EMC: Open Networking’s Next Evolution Is SD-WAN By David Ramel 02/11/2019 Dell EMC is the latest networking vendor to point to SD-WAN as the future for the evolution of the open networking movement, which emphasizes disaggregated, modular, software-centric systems over closed, proprietary, hardware-based legacy implementations. While that transformative networking revolution — featuring acronym-laden […]
Marvel to make four animated superhero series for Hulu
Walt Disney’s Marvelsuperhero studio will produce four new adult-oriented animated series for the Hulu streaming service. The four series will center around the characters M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Tigra & Dazzler and Howard The Duck, the statement said. The series will culminate with an animated special called “Marvel’s The Offenders” in which the characters team up to […]
Red Hat announces container flaw CVE-2019-5736
Red Hat announced a vulnerability this morning – one that can be exploited if a user runs malicious or modified containers. The flaw in runC (a lightweight portable container runtime) and Docker that this vulnerability exposes allows an attacker to escape a container and access the underlying file system. That might sound bad, but there’s […]
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Facebook adds 5 new partners to fact-checking network in India
With the general elections just months away in India, Facebook has added five new partners including the India Today Group to its third-party fact-checking programme aimed at reducing the spread of false news on its platform. With the addition of the new partners, Facebook has expanded the programme to three new languages. The new partners […]
Byju’s to recruit 3.5k, double workforce
Education technology startup Byju’s has said it plans to double its workforce this year by adding 3,000-3,500 employees, kicking off one of the largest such recruitment drives by a private internet company in the last few years. Unlike food delivery firms Swiggy or Zomato that largely do the bulk of their hiring for the delivery […]
Keen to be no.1 in FMCG, ITC seeks the e-commerce edge
ITC is set to become one of the first frontline FMCG companies to start its own e-commerce operation for premium and niche products as it seeks to expand market share in the fast growing online sales segment and ensure wider availability of products, executive director B Sumant said. A recent report by Nielsen says e-commerce […]
After snub from Twitter CEO, house panel considering sending a "strong" message
The parliamentary standing committee on information technology is exploring ways of expressing its frustration, including declaring breach of privilege, at being unable to get Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey or his secondin-command to attend its hearing on Monday, said people with knowledge of the matter. This may include sending a “strong” recommendation to the government seeking […]